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We are very happy to announce that our Windows 10 SpanishTown app is now available across all of your Windows 10 devices including the Xbox One. What is even better is that you only have to buy it once and it will be available on all of your Windows 10 devices: phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, Surface, Surface Hub, HoloLens and now the Xbox One.

Tenses and Moods

Access hundreds of example verbs and full sentences with audio across a variety of different tenses and moods. Practise for the next exam by using our multiple choice quizzes and fill-in-the-blank worksheets which draw on a database of thousands of different questions.

Grammar Topics

We have loaded the app with a large variety of grammar topics that will help you navigate through those difficult areas. When do you use ser or estar or por or para? What are the rules and exceptions to the gender of nouns? Why is the verb gustar different and why is it so important to understand?

Vocabulary

Learn new Spanish words and listen to the pronunciation. Our vocabulary section is organized by category but you can also search for a specific word either using English and Spanish. We are not a dictionary but we do have hundreds and hundreds of the most common words available, all with audio and the English translation.

Verbs

With over 350 of the most common Spanish verbs available you can look through them, either alphabetically or by using our search feature. Search using the English verb or the Spanish verb. View the verb conjugations for different tenses and moods.

We have just put the finishing touches on our update to Lesson 1 Spanish for Kids. All five topic areas are now designed for modern browsers and work great with touch devices!

Greetings in Spanish

We have added a little comic strip with Spanish audio to demonstrate a short conversion using our greeting’s vocabulary. Simply click or tap on one of the scenes to listen. Following the comic strip you will find a list of common Spanish vocabulary related to greetings. Again, it is designed for touch devices as well as the mouse. Learn Spanish vocabulary for greetings.

About You in Spanish

In this section SpanishTown.ca introduces you to question and answer phrases commonly used when describing yourself or someone you know. The basic vocabulary focuses on asking someone’s name in Spanish, how old you are and where do you live. Another comic strip and additional Spanish phrases have been added. Try some out with a friend! Learn some Spanish phrases!

Moving Forward

You may have noticed a few changes that have been taking place on SpanishTown.ca over the last week. We have begun to transition away from using Flash and moving towards HTML5 for our Spanish language audio. The first pages to see the change are our “Counting in Spanish” pages, from 0 – 100.

More Devices

By making these changes we are opening up the site to students using Windows Phones, iPads and iPhones. The larger “tiles” also make it easier for those using touch interfaces on Windows 8 devices and iOS.

Browsers

These changes should work on any modern browser such as IE, Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Just make sure you are using a current version.

The Plan

Eventually all of our audio vocabulary pages will be moving to HTML5. It will take some time to convert all of our vocabulary (we have a lot) so be patient.

Spanish Past Tense App

The Spanish Grammar Preterite and Imperfect Tenses app is designed for students learning the Spanish language, specifically the simple past tense. It provides students with a quick and easy reference to the rules, exceptions and uses of the simple past tense. Essentially it is a cheat sheet for your Windows Phone. It provides you with sample regular and irregular verbs along with their English translation and their past tense conjugation.

Includes 110 quiz questions over 6 different quizzes to test your knowledge and help you prepare for class.

The verb list contains over 340 common Spanish verbs, with their English translation and their preterite and imperfect tense forms build right into the app.

Spanish Future Tense App

Designed for students to use a reference tool, our comprehensive list of over 340 common verbs will help you achieve success in your Spanish class.

Version 2.0 for Windows Phone 8 includes a new design and 100 questions over 5 different quizzes to help you prepare for your next exam. It is a great tool to use when working on your homework assignments. The app is simple to navigate and easy to understand.

New Spanish Vocabulary

We’ve been hard at work over the last few months preparing a major update to our Spanish for Kids Grade 1 pages.

The vocabulary has been reorganized into 10 themed free Spanish lessons. Each lesson contains a number of vocabulary pages. A lot of new vocabulary has been added and all of the Flash audio has been remade.

Each themed lesson includes counting in Spanish with audio up to 100. In lesson 1, learn to count to 10. In lesson 2, count to 20 and so on.

50 New Spanish Vocabulary Sheets

To compliment this massive amount of work we’ve also added 50 completely free, fully illustrated, Spanish vocabulary sheets in PDF format for downloading and printing. Teachers are free to download and print them for use in their classrooms.

Spanish Lesson Booklets Coming Soon

We are still not finished updating the Spanish Grade 1 section. Next on our list is the creation of our Lesson Booklets to accompany each Spanish lesson. Hopefully we’ll start publishing those booklets early in 2012.

Feedback

We have scoured these new sections for errors and problems with links. If you find any please let us know so that we can get those repaired.

Feel free to comment on the material as well. We are always looking at ways to improve the site and the materials.